Investigation of tourist guides demographic and professional variables of terms of job and life satisfaction

This research, which aims to reveal the relationship between job and life satisfaction and to determine the differentiation of this relationship in terms of demographic variables, was carried out through 7864 professional tourist guides who were registered and acted in the guidance professional chambers of the Tourist Guides Association. Data were collected from 408 tourist guides using the job and life satisfaction scale. Shapiro-Wilk normality test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Mann-Whitney U test, Correlation and Regression analyzes were performed with SPSS-23 statistical program. According to the data obtained in the research; It was found that there was a significant and positive relationship between life satisfaction and job satisfaction levels of the participants. As job satisfaction level increases, life satisfaction level also increases and job satisfaction level increases as life satisfaction level increases. A significant and positive relationship was found between job satisfaction sub-dimensions of management, career, wage and structure of work and life satisfaction but no significant relationship was found between the size of the colleagues and life satisfaction. According to the demographic and professional variables; It was found that job and life satisfaction levels differed significantly in terms of educational status, professional experience, language of instruction, nationality, mode of study, additional income status, types of tours and actual job status.